CHILD
FREE
SONGWRITER: PAUL BERNARD RODGERS
COUNTRY: U.K.
ALBUM: FREE AT LAST
LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES ROCK
YEAR: 1972
Paul
Bernard Rodgers (born 17 December 1949) is an English singer, songwriter and
musician, best known for his success in the 1960s and 1970s as vocalist of Free and Bad Company.
He now lives in
Canada as a naturalized Canadian citizen. After
stints in two less successful bands in the 1980s and early 1990s, The
Firm and The Law,
he became a solo artist. He has more recently toured
and recorded with Queen.
Rodgers has been dubbed "The Voice" by his fans. A poll in Rolling
Stone magazine ranked him number 55 on its list of the "100 Greatest
Singers of All Time". In 2011 Rodgers received the British Academy's Ivor
Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to
British Music.
Child
you're talking of freedom
Painted on your garden wall
It's not there at all
Child you're talking of wisdom
You say wisdom is a golden rule
You ain't no fool
But you don't know who it is
Who calls you name
In the light of the golden moon
You don't know who it is who brought you here
And chained up your heart
So soon
Child you're life is a fairytale
And it's not the same
And the clouds
You're hiding behind
In your misty mind have disappeared
Like a sailor far from the shores of your dreams
And far from the love of your home
Sailor lost on your own misty seas
And the chains on your heart, baby
Might be my love
Might be my love
It's so confusing
And you feel that you're loosing yourself
But, there over the mountain
You thought you'd never have to climb
There's a road
Reaching and stretching
To the corner of your mind
Like a river casts aside the dust
And grows and grows as it flows
The feeling deep inside of you
Must break like a dam
So set you free
So set you free
So set you free